Google has dismissed as a smear campaign the emergence of stories that its Google Apps implementation at LAPD is going pear-shaped.
According to Consumer Watchdog, the rollout has hit snags, with the police deciding that security on the vaunted platform isn’t adequate for users in the City Attorney Criminal Branch, fire …

Hah hah hah

My sympathy

My place's long-overdue burial of that braindead abomination is finally "just around the corner" - frankly, at this point I'd be happy to upgrade to carrier pigeons and/or revert to snail mail.

Even the poor sod who runs those servers is dreaming of the day he can drag them outside and douse them in something highly flammable to make sure that infestation is deader than dead.

Having said that, handing over all LAPD's internal mail to the "All your data are belong to us" crowd doesn't sound ideal either. Can't they just get a nice solid IMAP installation on their own hardware, and replicate it across two datacentres? Secure, reliable, no route for Google poking around in the data.